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...that growing up mixed-race in the '50s made him "an oddity ... I was the darkie one." At 19, he saw Ian Holm's Richard III and realized that the stage would allow him to become anyone he wanted to be. He changed his name, paying homage to his spice-trading grandfather, whose nickname was King Clove. Before long, he had earned a place in the Royal Shakespeare Company, the troupe that helped him fall in love with drama. The stage veteran surged into film with the title role in - and Best Actor Oscar for - Gandhi. Since then, his role...
...these efforts were not pathetic enough, just last spring, the UC created an actual task force determined to spice up our love lives. The Council initially earmarked between $1,000-2,000 in funding to combat the undergraduate dating crisis. The ingenious solutions included offering discounted movie tickets and a speaker series on dating etiquette to help lessen the burden of approaching that special someone. Even our new UC vice president was in on the idea: “Dating is pretty abysmal at Harvard,” explained Michael R. Blickstead...
...offering truffles filled with Taleggio cheese or topped with dried olives. Chefs are also using cocoa in dishes that come before dessert. F. Bryce Whittlesey has created a menu at Wheatleigh in Lenox, Mass., that includes lobster, foie gras and venison--all made using chocolate as one would a spice or an herb. How sweet it is--or isn't. --By Lisa McLaughlin
Granath suggested we spice up our marriage with a threesome. I expressed concern that this would cause jealousy and destabilize our relationship. "Do it with someone you don't see every day," Ashton suggested. I explained that it wasn't the third person who might resent me for the rest of my life. Granath, in what I suspect was a ratings ploy, offered herself as a third party, at which time Cassandra proved my point about these situations causing tension and threatened a catfight. Despite all of this, Ashton pushed the menage a trois: "Afterward, you'll fantasize about...
...becoming clear that the way to spice up my marriage wasn't by bringing in more people but by listening to Cassandra, given that my attitude toward sex is about as subtle as my attitude toward writing, only without bothering with that introductory-paragraph part. So I signed up for a seminar at Toys in Babeland, a sex shop run by lesbians in Manhattan. Thirty other men in their 20s and 30s showed up for "Sex Tips for Straight Men." It turned out lesbians know a lot about how to have sex with a woman. They suggested conning your partner...